Member Since:
Nov. 22, 2010
Kate Buckley
Biography
Kate is a member of the Writers Guild of America, PEN USA, and holds an MA in Human Development from Pacific Oaks College and an MFA in Writing for Children from Vermont College of Fine Arts. As a Hollywood screenwriter, Kate developed and wrote screenplays about women's issues. Kate worked as a teen advocate in the Los Angeles Commission on Assaults Against Women’s (LACAAW) Teen Abuse Prevention Project. She also took the LA Commission’s Rape Crisis Hot Line training. Kate has co-facilitated support groups for adolescent girls in both California and New Mexico and coordinated LIfe Skills—a science-based, three year, drug and alcohol abuse prevention program—in the middle schools of Santa Fe, New Mexico. From 2008 to 2010 Kate taught six PEN in the Classroom writing workshops to eighth and tenth graders in the public schools of Santa Fe. CHOICES is her first young adult novel.
Where to find Kate Buckley online
Website: http://www.katebuckleybooks.com
Books
Choices
by Kate Buckley
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 57,510.
Language:
English.
Published: September 15, 2009
.
Categories:
Fiction » Young adult or teen » Social Issues
Binge drinking, date rape, family secrets and teen pregnancy collide in Choices, a compelling coming-of-age journey for fifteen-year-old Kara MacNeill.
Choices is the powerful story of a teenage girl who learns to think for herself and take responsibility for her choices. Kara emerges from her painful experience forever changed—but wiser, and stronger.